What does it mean when an album or song is “remastered”?
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“Mastering” usually means taking a whole song that’s been recorded and making the final track sound the best it possibly can. Remastering is doing that again for a song that’s already come out before. Sometimes modern equipment can help us make a song sound better in ways that old technology wasn’t able to, or sometimes we change things just because more people like a different type of sound now than they used to.
When a song is remastered, it might be made louder, made to have more bass or treble so that different parts of the song stand out more, and compressed to make the difference between the loudest and quietest parts of the song smaller, so that it sounds smoother or more “glued together.” Some people like the remastered versions of songs best because they sound more like something that might be produced today, and some people prefer the older versions.
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